A podcast offering news, views and commentary on security issues for Voice Over IP(VoIP), Unified Communications (UC) and IP Telephony

November 22, 2006

Greetings! Welcome to our little corner of the online world where, from 2005-2008, once a week (roughly) we got together to have a conversation about Voice-over-IP (VoIP) security. As you look down the page, you'll see that we have two general types of shows. Our "main" shows are where we get together and discuss the latest VoIP security news, offer commentary on topical issues and play and respond to listener comments. These shows have been numbered consecutively since our start in October 2005 and generally run about 45 minutes. Our "Special Edition" podcasts (now designated with a "SE" in the show title) are typically special interviews we have done, presentations we have given or panels/presentations from conferences that we have been able to record. They are quite diverse and so do vary widely in length. As you'll notice in our main shows, we've developed a wonderful community of listeners and always welcome comments, contributions or other feedback. Thank you for visiting and we hope you enjoy the shows. Please do send us your thoughts and comments.

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to blueboxpodcast@gmail.com. Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows. You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to 'bluebox@voipuser.org' to leave a comment there.

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to blueboxpodcast@gmail.com. Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows. You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to 'bluebox@voipuser.org' to leave a comment there.

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

21:47 - Sting3r.com: Creating Secure Asterisk Links which points to IAX2 War Dialer(Note that since the time this was recorded, the site has changed its design and the links no longer work. However, the site author contacted me to tell me that a site in Germany was mirroring his original site and the links were available there. I have now changed the links to point to the German site.)

Comments, suggestions and feedback are welcome either as replies to this post or via e-mail to blueboxpodcast@gmail.com. Audio comments sent as attached MP3 files are definitely welcome and will be played in future shows. You may also call the listener comment line at either +1-206-350-2583 or via SIP to 'bluebox@voipuser.org' to leave a comment there.

Thank you for listening and please do let us know what you think of the show.

Back in Blue Box #41, listener Miguel Garcia sent in the links to the RTPSEC BOF sessions at the IETF66 meeting in Montreal, Canada, in July 2006. I meant at the time to include them in the show notes - and have now done so - but thought I would also include these links here for people who might not revisit show #41:

Note that this was the session in Montreal where the IETF attendees were trying to get to the requirements necessary for securing the RTP media stream. The eventual outcome of that session was an Internet-Draft on media security requirements that was discussed at the IETF 67 meeting last week in San Diego, California. (No word yet on the outcome of that discussion.)

Thanks, Miguel, for sending in those links - and my apologies for the delay in getting the links posted.

November 10, 2006

Where are all the shows that I kept talking about, eh? Well...this week I had the lethal combination of getting rather sick and losing my voice (rather deadly for a podcaster!) and simultaneously having some large RFPs to which I had to contribute. Taken together, these factors pretty much wiped out podcast production time this week. Hang in there, though... LOTS of good stuff coming your way soon.

Full Disclosure

Jonathan Zar is affiliated with Pingalo and is the Secretary of VOIPSA and member of the Board of Directors.

This is a personal project and neither the Internet Society, Pingalo nor VOIPSA have any formal connection to this podcast. In the interest of transparency we just thought you should know our affiliations.

Why "Blue Box"?

We chose the name "Blue Box" primarily as a nod to the era of phone phreaking in part to illustrate that threats to telephony are not new - they just continue to change and evolve. That and admittedly the name just sounded cool.